On the auction block today are the contents of the district's transportation and maintenance facility. Included are eight school buses, the newest of which are 11 years old. Three of them are 20 years old, one is 12 years old and the other 14 years old.

The district is not directly educating students, instead authorizing its four schools to be operated as the nation’s first charter district, Muskegon Heights Public School Academy. The academy, managed and operated by Mosaica Education, Inc., has contracted with Dean Transportation to bus students using its own buses.

Among the multitude of items in the online auction, which ends at 8 p.m. today, are a softball and baseball field striper, snowblower, lawn mower, cases of hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies, vacuum cleaners, light bulbs and such tools as power saws and drills.

Weatherspoon has authorized the sale of all surplus items from closed school buildings.